PASADENA EDITION

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2016


VOLUME 10 NO. 46

Pasadena 
Fire Arrests 
Fraudulent 
Fire Service 
Providers

Portantino 
Defeats 
Antonovich 
for State 
Senate 



Anthony Portantino beat out 
Longtime Republican Los 
Angeles County Supervisor 
Michael Antonovich for 
State Senate during Tuesday’s 
election. Portantino won 
with 57.5 percent of the vote. 
He will represent Pasadena 
and parts of the San Gabriel 
Valley. Some said this would 
have been an opportunity 
for Antonovich to take a 
State Senate seat away from 
the Democrats had he won.

 The seat was held by 
Democrat Senator Carol Liu 
who termed out.

 Portantino thanked his 
supporters during a somber 
election night gathering at 
the Pasadena Democratic 
Headquarters. 

 Portantino said his priorities 
include education and a 
continued fight against the 
proposed 710 tunnel project.

 Judy Chu, Chris Holden 
and Adam Schiff were 
all reelected. Chu won 
over former FBI agent 
Jack Orswell with over 
66 percent of the vote for 
27th District in the House 
of Representatives. Holden 
won against Republican 
Casey Higgins for Assembly 
District 41 and Schiff 
received 78 percent of the 
vote against Republican 
Lenore Solis for the 28th 
District in the House of 
Representatives.

 Reminder to be 
vigilant and ask the 
right questions

 Local incumbents Judy 
Chu, Chris Holden and 
Adam Schiff win big

 As part of an ongoing 
investigation, Pasadena Fire 
and Police Investigators 
announced Thursday they 
made an arrest of a male 
suspect conducting fraudulent 
fire extinguisher service.

 “This company and their 
employees, operate under 
the guise of several company 
names, and have targeted 
dozens of businesses over 
the years,” said Pasadena 
Fire Public Information 
Officer Lisa Derderian. “The 
individuals responsible have 
been elusive in avoiding 
detection and apprehension.”

 The Pasadena Fire 
Department reminds 
businesses and residents 
(condominium and apartment 
units) to ask questions if an 
uninvited person shows-
up claiming they were 
scheduled. After confirming 
that the company was actually 
requested, make sure you ask 
for a City business license 
and their State Fire Marshal 
identification that authorizes 
them to work on fire 
extinguishers. Additionally, 
their vehicle should be labeled 
with a company name and 
business license number.

 Fraudulent inspections and 
services pose a serious risk 
by creating a false sense of 
security for those who rely 
on life-safety equipment. 
If not serviced correctly, 
fire extinguishers or fire 
extinguishing systems may 
not function as designed 
during an emergency. The Fire 
Department urges you to call 
them at 626-744-7177 if there 
are any concerns regarding 
the legitimacy of a fire 
extinguisher service company.

Pasadena Veterans Day Ceremony

 U.S. Congresswoman Judy Chu 
(pictured above middle) and 
Pasadena Mayor Terry Tornek 
were among those honoring 
veterans during a ceremony 
Friday Morning that included 
a flyover by the “Condor 
Squadron” World War II T-6 
planes in formation. 

 Tornek proclaimed November 
11, 2016 as Veterans Day in 
Pasadena, to “reaffirm the 
deep appreciation of a grateful 
community for the patriotism, 
sacrifice and service of our 
veterans.” He said.

 Chu said her top priory right 
now to bring a veterans health 
clinic to the San Gabriel Valley.

 “It is outrageous that veterans 
in our area are forced to make 
long trips to help centers outside 
our region, in Long Beach, West 
L.A. to obtain treatment for 
service obtained injuries and 
trauma,” she said. 

 Guest Speaker was Brig. Gen. 
Paul Lebidine, Commanding 
General, 4th Marine Division.

 “For our next generation, is 
to give some thought to your 
service, and it doesn’t have to be 
in the military, there are some 
really great examples here today 
with our police and firefighters 
and our political leadership and 
what they do… so think about 
that,” he said.


Local 
Election 
Candidate 
Filing Period 
to Open

Portantino Photo D. Lee/MVNews 

New ArtCenter Exhibitions 
to Explore Uncertainty

Senior Center 
to Recapped 
Presidential, 
Congressional 
Elections

 Caroline Heldman, associate 
professor of politics at 
Occidental College, will discuss 
the political implications of 
the 2016 presidential and 
congressional elections during 
a discussion Tuesday from 2 to 
4 p.m. at the Pasadena Senior 
Center, 85 E. Holly St.

 The $15 event is 
part of The Masters 
Series that embraces 
and promotes lifelong 
learning and is open 
to members and non-members 
of the Pasadena Senior Center. 
Attendees who are not already 
registered for The Masters 
Series may pay at the Welcome 
Desk when they arrive.

 The fall term of The Masters 
Series, with the theme Politics 
of Our Times, began Oct. 4 
and has explored the history of 
partisan politics, how politics 
influences culture from the 
arts and industry to media 
and medicine, domestic and 
international implications of 
the presidential election and 
more.

 For more information or 
to be placed on The Masters 
Series mailing list for future 
events, email pamk@
pasadenaseniorcenter.org or 
call 626-685-6756.

 
Uncertainty is the latest in a 
series of exhibitions exploring 
the intersection of science and 
art at ArtCenter’s Williamson 
Gallery. Nine installations 
authored by artists and 
scientists have been assembled 
for an exhibition that ponders 
the edges of knowledge and 
perception, and explores the 
poetics of data visualization. 
Uncertainty opened last month 
and runs through Jan. 22.

 For millennia humans have 
sought to acquire and cling 
to the comforts of certainty 
while it’s anxious opposite 
–uncertainty – has sparked
the imaginations, instincts, 
hunches, intuitions, creativities, 
and curiosities that have shaped 
us into perennial seekers.

 Through paintings, 
installations, artifacts, and 
data visualizations, the 
exhibition immerses viewers 
in the uncertainty/certainty 
paradigm.

 Curated by Williamson Gallery 
director Stephen Nowlin, 
Uncertainty features works 
by Jim Campbell, Jonathan 
Corum, Marc Fichou, Donald 
A. Glaser (1926-2013), Lia 
Halloran, Thomas McCauley, 
Owen Schuh (with Satyan 
Devadoss), Edward Tufte 
and The Einstein Collective 
(artist Sara Mast, architect 
Jessica Jellison, artist and 
animator Christopher O’Leary, 
filmmaker Cindy Stillwell, 
sound artist and composer 
Jason Bolte, physicist Charles 
Kankelborg, physicist Nico 
Yunes, physicist Joey Shapiro 
Key).

 “In the seeker’s world, 
uncertainty is not its 
stereotypical composite of 
timidity, equivocation, and 
threat, nor is it license to fill 
the void with gods leaping the 
gap” Nowlin said in his catalog 
essay. “It’s simply where we 
place a temporary ‘end of road 
—construction’ sign on the 
perpetually grand and noble 
journey.”

 There is no admission charge 
to the Williamson Gallery, and 
parking is free.

Art Center Hillside Campus, 
Williamson Gallery, is located 
1700 Lida St. Pasadena.

 Williamson Gallery 
exhibitions are made possible 
in part through the generosity 
of the Williamson Gallery 
Patrons and a grant from the 
Pasadena Art Alliance.

 The official nomination 
period for candidates in 
Pasadena’s City Council 
Districts 3, 5 and 7 and the 
Pasadena Unified School 
District (PUSD) Board of 
Education Districts 1, 3, 5 and 
7 opens Monday according to 
City Clerk Mark Jomsky

Candidates for the City 
Council and Board of 
Education seats will be vying 
for four-year terms each.

 Jomsky said nominations 
close at 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 
9 for both the City and 
PUSD elections. The City 
Clerk’s Office will be issuing 
nomination papers during 
that period to qualified 
candidates.

 Two identical Candidate 
Workshops will be conducted 
by the City Clerk staff in the 
City Clerk’s Office at City Hall, 
100 North Garfield Avenue, 
Room S228, at 8 a.m. Monday 
and at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday.

 Election information is 
available online www.
cityofpasadena.net/cityclerk/
election or by calling the 
City Clerk’s Office at (626) 
744-4124 during regular 
business hours, Monday 
through Friday. The webpage 
will be updated periodically 
with candidate nomination 
information or if any local 
measures are added to the 
ballot.

 Are you interested in helping 
out your community for 
the election? Poll workers 
and accessible polling sites 
are needed for the March 7 
consolidated City and PUSD 
primary election and the April 
18 general municipal election. 
If you speak Chinese, Korean, 
or Spanish, you are especially 
needed! Poll workers provide 
a critical community service 
to the election process. Call 
the City Clerk’s Office at (626) 
744-4124 to sign up as a poll 
worker or to host a polling 
site!

 The deadline to register to 
vote for the March Primary 
Nominating Election is 
Monday, February 20.

The Einstein Collective

CALENDAR Pg. 2


MORE PASADENA NEWS

 Pg. 3

Doo Dah 
Parade 
Set to 
Bring 
Laughs

SAN MARINO/SO. PAS

Pg. 4

SIERRA MADRE Pg. 5

ARCADIA Pg. 6

MONROVIA 

 The Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade is set to 
celebrate 39 years of irreverent frolicking on the streets of 
Pasadena. The Parade takes place on Sunday, November 
20th, stepping off at 11am in East Pasadena along 
Colorado Boulevard (between Altadena and San Gabriel 
Boulevards) in East Pasadena —start location: 2627 E. 
Colorado Blvd.

 On Doo Dah day, dozens of inventive, if zany, art cars 
and floats will accompany a legion of revelers past the 
mom-n-pop shops along East Pasadena’s shady tree-
lined streets with a memorable cast of local eccentrics, 
disruptors, pundits, lone wolves, steam punks, makers 
and merrymakers.

 Entries will include the Nut Camp, Kinetic Pastry 
Science Mobile Muffins, Code Blue DeFibs, The Munster 
Coach, Flying Baby SeeSaw Acrobatics, Star Trek for 
Space, Toaster Car, Sign Spinners, Motorized Furniture, 
Dr. Steele’s Army of Toy Soldiers, The Billionaires, Free 
Thought Society, Doo Dah’s 2016 Royal Queen Mimi 
MarGo-Go, and Grand Marshals Scott and Lori Webster, 
among many others. Secret Santa, Doo Dah’s take on the 
North Pole icon, will close the parade and ring in the 
holiday season. And… not a rose will be harmed in the 
making of this parade.

 Official Doo Dah After-Party: American Legion, 179 N. 
Vinedo St. (2 blocks from Parade at Vinedo & Walnut) 
immediately following the event. New Astroturf and 
Queen Mimi MarGo-Go and the FunGuys live bands, 
dancing, cheap food and drinks!! $5 cover (supports a 
Legion charity).

 Come early! Bring a lawn chair! Food Trucks: Located 
off the parade route next door to Poo Bah records (at 
2636 E. Colorado Blvd.) include The Grilled Cheese 
Truck, Arturo’s Taco Truck, and Big Nash Ice Cream 
Truck.

EDUCATION/YOUTH

Pg. 7

FOOD & DRINK Pg. 8

THE GOOD LIFE Pg. 9

WORLD AROUND US 

 Pg. 10

 BEST FRIENDS Pg. 11


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AROUND SAN GABRIEL 
VALLEYB1

THE ARTS B2

BUSINESS NEWS

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OPINIONB4

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